 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1826 - 644 стор.
...of another school, than to create an image from the impulse of his own feeling. Robert Burns said, that the muse of his country found him as Elijah did...the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over him — and the same may be said of Chantrey : it was in a secluded place, a nameless spot, into which... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1826 - 550 стор.
...a letter to one of his correspondents : ' The Genius of my country found me, as the prophetic Bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bid me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes, and rural pleasures of my native soil in... | |
 | 1829 - 348 стор.
...a letter to one of his correspondents : ' The Genius of my country found me, as the prophetic Bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bid me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes, and rural pleasures of my native soil in... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 стор.
...inherit the virtues of their Ancestors? The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the plough ; and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native Boil, in... | |
 | Samuel Wilderspin - 1832 - 292 стор.
...born, who said so finely and truly — "The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, — at the PLOUGH, and threw her inspiring MANTLE over me." It has been remarked that there was something romantic in an incident which befel him in the first... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 528 стор.
...allusion, not profanely intended, that the " poetic genius of his country found him, as the prophet-bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over him. She bade him sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of his native soil, in... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 206 стор.
...inherit the virtues of their Ancestors? The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the Plough; and threw her inspiring Mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 420 стор.
...gentlemen of the Caledonian Hunt : — " The poetic Genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the plough ; and threw her inspiring mantle over me." — Nor is the indifferent sculpture redeemed by the inscription. The merits of him who wrote... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1834 - 370 стор.
...inherit the virtues of their ancestors ? The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the PLOUGH, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 стор.
...inherit the virtues of their Ancestors ? The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha — at the plough ; and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in... | |
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The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her. inspiring mantle over me. 
